Buenos Aires vs Gaborone - Cost of Living Comparison

Updated: March 01, 2024

	Buenos Aires	Gaborone
🚶 Cost of living one person	$791	$656
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Cost of living Family	$1973	$1745
🏠 One person rent	$365	$267
🏘️ Family rent	$638	$554
🍽️ Food expenses	$261	$271
🚐 Transport expenses	$69.1	$57.4
💳 Monthly salary after tax	$374	$460
😷 Air quality	Moderate	Moderate
✈️ Airport proximity	5 km	11 km
🎓 Higher education	79	39
😀 Quality of life	71	55
🏙️ Population	3.12M	246K

The cost of living in Buenos Aires is 21% more expensive than in Gaborone. Cities ranked 6407th and 7144th ($791 vs $656) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 1st and 1st in Argentina and Botswana, respectively. Check Argentina vs Botswana comparison.

The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 0.5 months in Buenos Aires compared to 0.7 months in Gaborone. Buenos Aires ranked 1st best city to live in Argentina vs Gaborone ranked 1st in Botswana, while ranked 2311th and 5959th among best cities to live in the world.

Salary adjustment calculator
the estimated difference in money purchasing power

Cost of living in Buenos Aires vs Gaborone infographic

Share this infographic!

Use the link below to embed the infographic from our site and automatically keep the data layer up to date.

If you prefer to download the image, please credit us as a source.

<img src="https://livingcost.org/assets/photo/cost/buenos-aires/gaborone.jpg" alt="Cost of living in Buenos Aires vs Gaborone infographic" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><p>Source: <a href="https://livingcost.org/cost/buenos-aires/gaborone" target="_blank">Buenos Aires vs Gaborone - Cost of Living Comparison</a></p>

Prices in Buenos Aires vs Gaborone

Prices for goods and services in Buenos Aires and Gaborone are partly crowdsourced by our visitors, just like yourself. Please consider telling us about your city.

	Buenos Aires	Gaborone
Eating Out
🍱 Lunch Menu	$7.12	$4.7
🥂 Dinner in a Restaurant, for 2	$25.7	$29.2
🥪 Fast food meal, equiv. McDonald's	$5.85	$7.24
🍻 Beer in a Pub, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.9	$1.75
☕ Cappuccino	$2.01	$2.15
🥤 Pepsi / Coke, 0.5 L or 16.9 fl oz	$1.2	$0.76
Rent & Utilities
🏙️ 1 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$440	$197
🏡 Cheap 1 bedroom apartment, 40 m2 or 430 ft2	$292	$133
🏙️ 3 bedroom apartment in Downtown, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$884	$524
🏡 Cheap 3 bedroom apartment, 80 m2 or 860 ft2	$506	$392
🔌 Utility Bill one person, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$23.5	$26.9
🔌 Utility Bill for a Family, electricity, heating, water, etc.	$36.2	$41.7
🌐 Internet plan, 50 Mbps+ 1 month unlimited	$20.1	$93.6
🏦 Mortgage Interest Rate for 20 Years	23.96%	9.18%
🏙️ Apartment price to Buy in city Center, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$2326	$1102
🏡 House price to Buy in Suburbs, 1 m2 or 10 ft2	$1774	$967
Transportation
🚌 Local transport ticket	$0.15	$0.51
🎟️ Monthly ticket local transport	$13.7	$22
🚕 Taxi Ride, 8 km or 5 mi	$7.13	$18
⛽ Gas / Petrol, 1 L or 0.26 gal	$0.9	$1.08
Groceries
🥛 Milk, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.93	$1.17
🍞 Bread, 0.5 kg or 1.1 lb	$1.27	$0.79
🍚 Rice, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1	$1.49
🥚 Eggs, x12	$2	$1.89
🧀 Cheese, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$7.97	$5.84
🐔 Chicken Breast, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$4.61	$4.02
🥩 Round Steak, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$5.59	$4.72
🍏 Apples, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.72	$1.69
🍌 Banana, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.34	$1.38
🍊 Oranges, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.85	$1.83
🍅 Tomato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$1.36	$1.27
🥔 Potato, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.93	$1.07
🧅 Onion, 1 kg or 2.2 lb	$0.77	$1.39
🌊 Water, 1 L or 1 qt	$0.54	$0.54
🍹 Coca-Cola / Pepsi, 2 L or 67.6 fl oz	$2.4	$1.37
🍾 Wine (mid-priced), 750 mL bottle	$4.36	$6.5
🍺 Beer, 0.5 L or 16 fl oz	$1.1	$1.67
🚬 Cigarette pack	$2.08	$3.96
💊 Cold medicince, 1 week	$8.18	$11.7
🧴 Hair Shampoo	$4.24	$5.39
🧻 Toilet paper, 4 rolls	$3.82	$0.52
👄 Toothpaste, 1 tube	$2.88	$2.94
Other
🏋️ Gym Membership, 1 month	$25.5	$36
🎫 Cinema Ticket, 1 person	$4	$5.85
👩‍⚕️ Doctor's visit	$39.1	$19.1
💇 Haircut, simple	$5.64	$4.58
👖 Brand Jeans	$75	$39.3
👟 Brand Sneakers	$115	$52.2
👶 Daycare or Preschool, 1 month	$202	$175
🏫 International Primary School, 1 year	$6679	$5329

Cost of living in other countries

Cost of living

Cost of Living in the nearest cities

Cities near Buenos Aires

Distance	City	Cost of living
11 km or 6.9 mi	Villa Dominico	$645
11 km or 7 mi	Lanus	$657
13 km or 7.9 mi	Wilde	$650
13 km or 8.1 mi	Remedios de Escalada	$608
14 km or 8.7 mi	Caseros	$658
14 km or 8.8 mi	Florida Este	$658
14 km or 8.9 mi	Ciudad Madero	$643
14 km or 8.9 mi	Bernal	$661
15 km or 9.4 mi	Monte Chingolo	$589
15 km or 9.6 mi	Lomas del Mirador	$648
17 km or 10 mi	La Tablada	$639
17 km or 10 mi	Quilmes	$705
18 km or 11 mi	Ramos Mejia	$650
18 km or 11 mi	San Justo	$642
19 km or 12 mi	El Palomar	$654
19 km or 12 mi	Temperley	$536
19 km or 12 mi	Lomas de Zamora	$547
19 km or 12 mi	San Isidro	$683
19 km or 12 mi	Ciudad Evita	$624
19 km or 12 mi	San Francisco Solano	$598
20 km or 12 mi	Villa Luzuriaga	$644
20 km or 13 mi	Rafael Calzada	$540
22 km or 13 mi	Isidro Casanova	$639
22 km or 13 mi	Ezpeleta	$678
22 km or 14 mi	Moron	$665
24 km or 15 mi	San Fernando de la Buena Vista	$666
24 km or 15 mi	Florencio Varela	$559
24 km or 15 mi	Burzaco	$558
24 km or 15 mi	Berazategui	$679
25 km or 15 mi	Gregorio de Laferrere	$626
25 km or 16 mi	Rafael Castillo	$629
25 km or 16 mi	Monte Grande	$579
29 km or 18 mi	Ezeiza	$597
29 km or 18 mi	Longchamps	$577
29 km or 18 mi	Libertad	$626
31 km or 19 mi	Gonzalez Catan	$623
32 km or 20 mi	Glew	$581
32 km or 20 mi	Merlo	$623
36 km or 23 mi	Jose C. Paz	$581
37 km or 23 mi	Virrey del Pino	$605

Cities near Gaborone

Distance	City	Cost of living
50 km or 31 mi	Molepolole	$603
67 km or 42 mi	Lobatse	$631
67 km or 42 mi	Kanye	$633
136 km or 84 mi	Mmabatho	$719
174 km or 108 mi	Rustenburg	$845
196 km or 122 mi	Mahalapye	$605
215 km or 134 mi	Brits	$751
257 km or 160 mi	Klerksdorp	$621
258 km or 160 mi	Potchefstroom	$625
259 km or 161 mi	Pretoria	$783
264 km or 164 mi	Randburg	$776
265 km or 165 mi	Palapye	$511
266 km or 165 mi	Centurion	$755
266 km or 165 mi	Soweto	$875
266 km or 165 mi	Serowe	$554
269 km or 167 mi	Sandton	$889
275 km or 171 mi	Johannesburg	$908
296 km or 184 mi	Benoni	$741
298 km or 185 mi	Vanderbijlpark	$698
302 km or 188 mi	Vereeniging	$637
310 km or 193 mi	Springs	$631
358 km or 222 mi	Kroonstad	$701
379 km or 235 mi	Welkom	$682
380 km or 236 mi	Middelburg	$866
407 km or 253 mi	Bethal	$746
421 km or 261 mi	Francistown	$550
468 km or 291 mi	Kimberley	$753
495 km or 308 mi	Bloemfontein	$601
514 km or 319 mi	Butha-Buthe	$511
531 km or 330 mi	Teyateyaneng	$511
540 km or 336 mi	Maseru	$535
559 km or 347 mi	Mbabane	$558
569 km or 354 mi	Bulawayo	$777
584 km or 363 mi	Manzini	$447
589 km or 366 mi	Mafeteng	$511
597 km or 371 mi	Vryheid	$739
628 km or 390 mi	Upington	$643
675 km or 419 mi	Matola	$978
685 km or 425 mi	Maputo	$1084
705 km or 438 mi	Gweru	$722